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Calendar

Press Ctrl+2, or click Calendar on the rail, to see your calendars.

Which accounts have a calendar

  • Outlook.com and Microsoft 365 accounts: the first time you open the Calendar, click Connect Outlook calendar. Your browser opens; sign in and allow the app to read and change your calendar. Your events then sync with Outlook.com or Microsoft 365, both ways.
  • Exchange and Obsidian accounts: the calendar comes with the account. There's nothing to connect.
  • Gmail and other IMAP accounts have no calendar in the app.

The calendars appear in a list on the left. Clear a calendar's box to hide its events. Disconnect stops showing a Microsoft account's calendar here; nothing on the server changes, and connecting again brings it back.

Views and moving around

ToDo this
See one day, the work week, the week or the monthHome > Day, Work Week, Week or Month, or Ctrl+Alt+1 to Ctrl+Alt+4
Go to todayHome > Today, or Ctrl+T
Go back or forwardPrevious and Next, or Alt+Left and Alt+Right
Get the latest from the serverHome > Refresh, or F9

Make an event

  • Click New Event, or press Ctrl+N (also Ctrl+Shift+A).
  • In the Day, Work Week and Week views, drag over empty time to make an event there.

The event window has:

  • a title, the Calendar it goes in, Start and End (or All day),
  • Repeat: Doesn't repeat, Every day, Every weekday, Every week, Every month (same date), Every month (same weekday), Every year, or Custom… (every few weeks on chosen days, ending Never, On date or After a number of times),
  • Location and Attendees (addresses separated by commas),
  • Reminder, from At start time to 1 week before, or None,
  • Show as: Free, Tentative, Busy, Away or Working elsewhere,
  • Private, and a description.

While you pick a time, the window warns you when it overlaps something else in your calendar. Click Save to keep the event.

An online meeting shows Join online meeting.

Change or delete an event

  • In the Day, Work Week and Week views, drag an event to move it, or drag its bottom edge to make it longer or shorter. Times snap to 15 minutes.
  • Double-click an event to open it.
  • Right-click an event for Open, Show as, and Delete. For a meeting someone else organized, you can Accept, answer Tentative or Decline, or Decline and remove it.
  • Select an event and press Delete to delete it.

For a repeating event, the app asks whether you mean Just this one or The entire series.

Invitations in your mail

Meeting invitations show a card above the message with Accept, Tentative and Decline. Your answer goes to the organizer and the meeting shows in your calendar. See Reading mail.

Reminders

When an event's reminder comes due, the Reminders window opens on top of your other windows. Use Open to see the event, Dismiss or Dismiss All, or choose a time under Remind me again in (5 minutes to 1 day) and click Snooze.

Reminders come from the app, so it needs to be running (the tray is enough).

Export a calendar

To save a calendar as an .ics file for another calendar app, see Importing and exporting.